Compact disc set for use with Music in Our World

by Gary C. White, Elyn Aviva, David Stuart

Two CDs featuring:. . Listening Activities . Dolphin Dreams (Jonathan Goldman) . Simple Gifts (Elder Joseph Brackett). Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland) . Exodus (Bob Marley and the Wailers) . Redemption Song (Bob Marley) . Grand Entry Song (Little Otter Singers) . Bay a Glezele Mashke (Klezmer Conservatory Band) . Oy Abram (Klezmer Conservatory Band) . Shango (Babatunde Olatunji) . De sancta Maria (Hildegard of Bingen) . Maru-Bihag (Ravi Shankar) . La Boheme, End of Act II (Giacomo Puccini) . The Four Seasons (Antonio Vivaldi) . This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) . Bring Me Little Water, Sylvy (Leadbelly Huddie Ledbetter]) . The Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra (Benjamin Britten) . Gending Petegak (Gender Wayang Pemarwan) . Animal Crackers (Axigally) . Huachos (Tramps) . Symphony no. 39 (Franz Joseph Haydn) . Sultan Veled Peshrev (Dogan Ergin) . Absalon, fili mi (Josquin Desprez) . Suite Thursday (Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn).

Audio CD

First published December 12, 2000

About the author

Gary White holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Michigan State University. At his retirement in 1994 he was Distinguished Professor of Music at Iowa State University, where he developed and administered the music theory curriculum and established the electronic and computer music studio. For a number of years he was also in charge of music listening courses for the general student at Iowa State. Dr. White is the composer of over fifty published musical compositions and the author of Music First! (a music fundamentals textbook) and Instrumental Arranging (a textbook for orchestration and arranging), both published by McGraw-Hill. He has been awarded the U.C. Berkeley Medal by the University of California at Berkeley, was named a National Arts Associate by Sigma Alpha Iota, and has held a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. His compositions have won many prizes and awards, including the Toon van Balkom Prize and the Shenandoah/Percussion Plus Prize.